Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

Researchers discovered that genetic conflict between paternal and maternal genes determines whether honey bee larvae become ...

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens ...

Investigators have unveiled for the first time that changes in certain genes affect an aggressive cancer, T-cell acute ...

Scientists identified 473 human genes that act as genetic “on/off switches,” shaping disease risk through tissue-specific or ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

Polyploidy, or whole-genome duplication (WGD), is a major mechanism of genome evolution across the tree of life and is ...

Last month, a baby got the world’s first personalized gene-editing treatment. What will this mean for millions of others with ...

Researchers have studied gene expression dynamics during metamorphosis in two species of flies. Published in the Genome ...

Investigating how mutations in tumors alter DNA’s 3D structure—and subsequently, regulatory sequences called enhancers—can ...